Team-by-team injuries, floors and ceilings for March Madness

Here is our first cheat sheet for the tournament. These are the last 80 teams still alive for a possible bid, either by winning a tournament title Saturday night or Sunday, or by being selected Sunday night. The most important thing of course is to know which teams have key injuries. We listed only strong contributors who are battling injuries. We linked to each of the players stats and listed their average points and rebounds per game.

The teams with the biggest variables between their floor and ceiling from 1st to 4th are Kansas (missing their top two stars in Hunter Dickinson (18.0, 10.8), and Kevin McCullar (18.3, 6.0), Marquette (missing All-American point guard Tyler Kolek (15.0, 4.6  and national high in assists at 7.6). Oregon N'Faly Dante (15.7, 8.8) and then Texas Tech Warren Washington 9.9, 7.4.

Kansas drops from 18th to 51st if neither star returns, while Marquette drops from 6th to 14th if Kolek doesn't return.

We note if a player is a STAR, and the word GONE before them means they will not return. All others could return.

Ceiling is where the team ranked from 1st to 80th if all injured players who might return do.

Floor is where the team ranked from 1st to 80th if none of the players who might return do.

Off is where the team ranks at www.kenpom.com in offense among these 80 teams (UConn is #1).

Def is where the team ranks at www.kenpom.com among these 80 teams on defense (Houston is #1).

 

Possible NCAA	Conf	Ceiling	Floor	Off	Def	Key Injuries / game left Sat night or Sunday, "if b" means must win for bid
Akron	MAC	63	62	68	56
Alabama	SEC	14	12	3	63
Arizona	P12	5	5	8	10
Auburn	SEC	4	4	10	4
Baylor	B12	12	17	6	43	Langston Love 11.0, 2.9
Boise State	MW	38	35	43	22
Brown	Ivy	75	75	76	74	if b. Yale Sun
BYU	B12	16	22	11	33	Aly Khalifa 5.9, 3.8
Charleston	CAA	62	61	48	61
Clemson	ACC	34	31	25	45
Colgate	Pat	66	66	75	57
Colorado	P12	26	29	24	28	Julian Hammond 7.4, 2.5
Colorado State	MW	33	28	35	27
Connecticut	BE	1	1	1	12
Creighton	BE	11	9	13	17
Dayton	A10	35	32	19	52
Drake	MVC	46	42	31	51
Duke	ACC	10	10	7	19	Caleb Foster 7.7, 2.4
Duquesne	A10	59	58	69	25	if b. VCU Sun
Florida	SEC	30	25	16	48
Florida Atlantic	Amer	36	41	15	60	Tre Carroll 4.0, 1.8
Gonzaga	WCC	15	13	9	32
Grambling	SWAC	78	78	79	75
Grand Canyon	WAC	48	45	50	39	if b. UTA SAT
Houston	B12	2	3	12	1	J'Wan Roberts 9.6, 6.9, GONE - Joseph Tugler 3.8, 4.1
Howard	MEAC	79	79	74	79
Illinois	B10	13	11	4	46
Indiana State	MVC	45	40	21	55
Iowa State	B12	9	8	54	2
James Madison	Sun	49	47	45	50
Kansas	B12	18	51	53	9	Hunter Dickinson STAR 18.0, 10.8, Kevin McCullar STAR 18.3, 6.0
Kentucky	SEC	20	18	5	62
Long Beach State	BW	73	73	66	78
Longwood	BSth	71	71	71	69
Marquette	BE	6	14	17	15	Tyler Kolek 15.0, 4.6, Nat'l #1 ast 7.6, STAR, GONE - Sean Jones 5.8, 1.5, 2.0
McNeese State	Slnd	50	48	41	53
Michigan State	B10	21	19	47	8	Jeremy Fears Jr. 3.5, 1.9
Mississippi State	SEC	23	20	49	14
Montana State	Bsky	76	76	77	76
Morehead State	OVC	64	63	63	65
N.C. State	ACC	51	56	42	54	Dennis Parker, Jr. 4.7, 3.2
Nebraska	B10	25	34	30	21	Eli Rice 4.2, 1.6
Nevada	MW	32	43	34	26	Hunter McIntosh 5.9, 1.2,
New Mexico	MW	24	21	36	18
North Carolina	ACC	8	7	22	5
Northwestern	B10	44	46	28	47	Matthew Nicholson 5.3, 4.3, GONE - Ty Berry 5.3, 4.3
Oakland	Hrz	70	70	65	72
Oklahoma	B12	39	53	40	24	Rivaldo Soares 9.4, 4.9, John Hugley 8.4, 3.8
Oregon	P12	55	59	46	49	N'Faly Dante STAR, 15.7, 8.8, Keeshawn Barthelemy 7.9, 2.2
Pittsburgh	ACC	41	37	29	34
Princeton	Ivy	52	49	27	67
Providence	BE	54	52	62	13	GONE - Bryce Hopkins STAR 15.5, 8.6
Purdue	B10	3	2	2	16
Samford	SC	58	57	55	64
San Diego State	MW	17	15	44	7
Seton Hall	BE	47	44	56	35
South Carolina	SEC	42	38	39	36
South Dakota State	Sum	69	69	64	70
South Florida	Amer	57	55	60	42
St. John's	BE	28	23	20	37
St. Mary's (CA)	WCC	22	26	38	11	Harry Wessels 4.4, 3.6, GONE - Joshua Jefferson 102., 6.5
St. Peter's	MetroA	72	72	67	71
Stetson	Asun	77	77	58	80
TCU	B12	31	27	37	23
Temple	Amer	74	74	78	68	if b. UAB Sun
Tennessee	SEC	7	6	26	3
Texas	B12	29	24	18	40
Texas A&M	SEC	40	36	33	30
Texas Tech	B12	27	30	23	31	Warren Washington	9.9, 7.4
UAB	Amer	67	67	51	77	if b. Temple Sun
UT Arlington	WAC	65	65	61	66	if b. Grand Canyon SAT
Utah State	MW	43	39	32	44
VCU	A10	56	54	59	38
Vermont	AE	61	64	70	41	Matt Veretto, STAR, 9.0, 3.3
Virginia	ACC	53	50	72	6
Wagner	NE	80	80	80	73
Washington State	P12	37	33	52	20
Western Kentucky	CUSA	68	68	73	59
Wisconsin	B10	19	16	14	29
Yale	Ivy	60	60	57	58	If beat Brown Sun

Bracket VI - KenPom plus Point Guard Rating - Houston beats Marquette for Title

Note: click here for the bracket results for all 8 methods.

Point Guard is the key position on the court in the pressure or March Madness. They need to direct the team, and overcome the pressure, because no one else can try to score if the other team forces a turnover. We ranked all players but flagged the point guard on each team – and our calculation lined up with the vote for the five finalist to claim the Cousy Award for Top Point Guard to include:

Markquis Nowell (Kansas State), Tyler Kolek (Marquette). Boo Buie (Northwestern). Jalen Pickett  (Penn State) and the only player with more assists then Kolek though not in the tournament - Yuri Collins (St. Louis).

Kolek’s status added to Marquette’s KenPom was enough for a path to the title game, but even if they make it that far a loss to Houston is still projected.

Bracket IV - KenPom Plus Hottest Teams - UConn beats Alabama for Title

Note: click here for the bracket results for all 8 methods.

Here is the bracket based on the KenPom rating but with a heavier weight toward the rating the last weeks of the season to move the hottest teams going into the tournament head in close games.

The AdjM ranking at www.kenpom is his master calculation of how many points better than the average team any given team is. When calculating the hottest team, we estimate the AdjM just over the past several weeks as a team has trended more hot or cold. We rank Connecticut as the hottest team in basketball in February and March despite losing by two points to Marquette in the Big East title. 

Here is where all 68 rank, with a note on their kenpom rank in early February and then last week to show the movement.

Hotttest	Team	AdjM Recent	Feb 1 ranking	Rank final week
1	Connecticut	30	6	4
2	Alabama	28	4	3
3	Texas	28	10	9
4	Houston	27	1	1
5	Gonzaga	27	17	10
6	Arizona	27	12	10
7	UCLA	26	4	2
8	Marquette	25	8	12
9	Xavier	24	23	14
10	Duke	24	28	24
11	Purdue	23	5	6
12	Kansas	23	9	8
13	San Diego St.	23	28	15
14	Texas A&M	23	42	19
15	Kentucky	23	34	22
16	Baylor	22	14	14
17	West Virginia	22	19	16
18	Utah St.	22	48	18
19	Maryland	21	29	18
20	Tennessee	20	1	5
21	Michigan St.	20	41	29
22	Memphis	20	36	33
23	Arkansas	19	20	19
24	Indiana	19	22	27
25	Florida Atlantic	19	39	29
26	VCU	19	78	67
27	Saint Mary's	18	7	7
28	Creighton	18	11	12
29	Kansas St.	18	24	18
30	USC	18	45	34
31	Nevada	18	52	40
32	Northwestern	18	54	42
33	Auburn	17	30	26
34	Iowa St.	16	18	20
35	Iowa	16	33	35
36	Drake	16	81	77
37	Penn St.	15	40	47
38	Iona	15	85	76
39	Boise St.	14	25	28
40	Mississippi St.	14	50	45
41	Missouri	14	49	51
42	Charleston	14	77	73
43	TCU	13	15	24
44	Miami FL	13	37	40
45	Oral Roberts	13	57	67
46	Illinois	12	23	32
47	Kent St.	12	71	78
48	N.C. State	11	53	47
49	Arizona St.	11	65	62
50	Louisiana	11	99	111
51	Vermont	11	136	113
52	Virginia	9	13	31
53	Providence	9	28	45
54	Furman	9	91	90
55	Pittsburgh	8	68	66
56	Grand Canyon	8	118	112
57	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	8	219	173
58	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	8	219	178
59	Kennesaw St.	7	142	130
60	Montana St.	6	111	110
61	Princeton	6	112	116
62	UNC Asheville	6	179	149
63	Northern Kentucky	6	208	163
64	UC Santa Barbara	5	91	109
65	Colgate	5	115	112
66	Howard	2	237	218
67	Texas Southern	-5	306	294
68	Fairleigh Dickinson	-14	313	315

March Madness 8 - Final and Most Important, the Best Teams Being Put on the Court

While we've broken down seven factors that can give a team a chance for an upset in March Madness, we finish with by far the most important factor - who is the best team on the court in each game?

The best team doesn't always win, but they win two-thirds of the team.

If course the first place people should go as a starting point is www.kenpom.com, who revolutionized analytics. However, I do suggest people also go to www.valueaddbasketball.com for one reason - it breaks the ratings down to each player on a team so that you know how much an injured player will hurt them or who much better their rating would be with a player who has returned.

The following rankings for all teams who will (or in a few cases might) make the tournament are based on the following:

1. VA5 indicates the sum of the player rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com - which is similar to www.kenpom.com but represent more than a point (e.g. Gonzaga is a 51.97 here and a 32.97) mainly because our math indicates players on good teams would be even more valuable if the could play more.

2. Then the big difference is the "healthy" column. If that number is 0 then there is no adjustment because there have been no major injuries. However, if that number is a positive number then it is added to the first number because it indicates the team's ranking is actually higher when a player who misses some games is back. However, a negative number means the team is missing a key player or players so is actually not as good as their www.kenpom.com or raw www.valueaddkbasketball.com ranking would indicate.

The two really tough variables are from the Big Ten. Both Illinois and Ohio State have key players that might or might not be ready to play in the tournament, so look at the notes on them in particular and move them up or down several spots based on monitoring those key injuries at this site.

The following are the most important numbers if you only read one of these blogs.

Rnk	Team	VA 5	Healthy?	Team on Court	Notes on injuries, or players who were out
1	Gonzaga	51.97	0	51.97
2	UCLA	47.33	2.51	49.84	Despite their loss to Arizona in the Pac-12 title game, the fact that Jaylen Clark, Cody Riley and Johnny Juzang all appear to be healthy pushes them to the No. 2 team on the court.
3	Arizona	46.94	0	46.94
4	Texas Tech	43	2.22	45.22	With Kevin McCullar and Terrence Shannon back, Texas Tech is loaded again.
5	Houston	46.18	-1.3	44.88	The drop of Houston assumes Marcus Sasser is not coming back.
6	Kentucky	44.56	0	44.56
7	Kansas	43.21	0	43.21
8	Villanova	42.99	0	42.99
9	Duke	42.91	0	42.91
10	Tennessee	43.51	-1.32	42.19	As great as they have been, they are hurt by Olivier Nkamhoua being out.
11	Purdue	41.33	0	41.33
12	Auburn	40.95	0	40.95
13	Iowa	40.34	0	40.34
14	Connecticut	38.05	0.76	38.81
15	Loyola Chicago	37.65	0.95	38.6
16	Baylor	44.85	-6.69	38.16	The defending champs are the most hurt, with both Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua and LJ Cryer out.
17	Saint Mary's	38.01	0	38.01
18	Illinois	38.82	-1.3	37.52	if Jacob Grandison's shoulder is ok and he plays, this improves by 2.3, if not drop it by 2.3 - so one of two big question marks.
19	Arkansas	36.64	0	36.64
20	San Francisco	36.62	0	36.62
21	Alabama	36.49	0	36.49
22	San Diego St.	36.36	0	36.36
23	Michigan	35.84	0	35.84
24	Texas	37.31	-1.68	35.63	This drop assumes Tre Mitchell does not return - if he does they go back up to a 37.31.
25	LSU	35.53	0	35.53
26	Murray St.	35.42	0	35.42
27	North Carolina	36.43	-1.03	35.4	No word on Dawson Garcia, so assuming he is out for the season.
28	Memphis	32.86	1.84	34.7	As disappointing as Memphis has been with all that talent, if they win the American tomorrow with Jalen Duren and DeAndre Williams playing, they could be a scary first round game.
29	Davidson	32.55	0.91	33.46
30	Oklahoma	33.44	0	33.44
31	Wisconsin	33.29	0	33.29
32	Virginia Tech	33.29	0	33.29
33	Boise St.	33.05	0	33.05
34	Wake Forest	31.97	0.67	32.64
35	Colorado St.	32.47	0	32.47
36	Michigan St.	32.38	0	32.38
37	TCU	32.02	0	32.02
38	Vermont	30.89	0.75	31.64
39	Iowa St.	31.31	0	31.31
40	Xavier	31.22	0	31.22
41	Marquette	30.74	0	30.74
42	Indiana	30.69	0	30.69
43	USC	30.64	0	30.64
44	BYU	30.42	0	30.42
45	Providence	29.63	0.67	30.3
46	Seton Hall	32.18	-2.3	29.88	Bryce Aiken's concussion has kept him out for a while, one of the biggest injuries and they would shoot up several spots if he returned.
47	SMU	29.75	0	29.75
48	UAB	30.78	-1.21	29.57
49	Miami FL	29.35	0	29.35
50	Wyoming	29.12	0	29.12
51	Ohio St.	33.15	-4.1	29.05	Key is if Kyle Young and Zed Key are back. If not -8.2 instead of -4.1, but if back take the -4.1 away. They would move all the way up to 33rd if both are back, but drop to 60th if not - so I split the difference here.
52	Richmond	28.82	0	28.82
53	Creighton	29.85	-1.43	28.42	All know Ryan Nembhard's injury hurts, but if Trey Alexander keeps playing well in his place, the inside outside with Ryan Kalkbrenner - who now ranks on the verge of All-American as the 17th best player in the country - can still make them lethal.
54	Chattanooga	27.48	0.75	28.23	Gillespie's only competition for 1st team All-American PG is this Malachi Smith (there is another one at Dayton), and with Silvio De Sousa back they are stronger.
55	Texas A&M	28.17	0	28.17
56	Notre Dame	28.15	0	28.15
57	South Dakota St.	28	0	28
58	Rutgers	27.1	0	27.1
59	New Mexico St.	25.49	0	25.49
60	Princeton	24.08	0	24.08
61	Long Beach St.	22.46	0	22.46
62	Georgia St.	19.79	1.4	21.19	They will be a big underdog, but with one of their two players in the top 10% of all players, Eliel Nsoseme, back they will be a stronger challenge.
63	Montana St.	20.54	0	20.54
64	Saint Peter's	20.26	0	20.26
65	Colgate	19.5	0	19.5
66	Jacksonville St.	18.73	0	18.73
67	Norfolk St.	18.5	0	18.5
68	Bryant	17.1	0.72	17.82	Bryant would have ranked higher if Hall Elisias didn't miss games, but he is back now.
69	Longwood	17.78	0	17.78
70	Yale	17.44	0	17.44
71	Delaware	17.32	0	17.32
72	Cal St. Fullerton	17.21	0	17.21
73	Akron	16.96	0	16.96
74	Wright St.	15.83	0	15.83
75	Texas Southern	10.97	0	10.97
76	Southeastern Louisiana	10.8	0	10.8

March Madness 1: Teams with Most NBA Talent

The first of a series of pieces will will post this weekend to help you fill out your March Madness brackets regards how much future NBA talent a team can put on the court. Fans tend to overestimate how many of their players will be in the NBA. In fact, only about 40 of the 4,000+ players on the court this year will be playing in the NBA within a couple of years.

This weekend we will update www.valueaddbasketball.com with a column for the percent chance a player will make the NBA. Auburn's Jabari Smith has the highest rating at 99, meaning he has a 99% chance of making the NBA (due to injuries etc., we never give 100%).

To determine how many players from a team will make the NBA we add up the percentage for each of their players with at least a 20% chance of making the NBA. His teammate Walker Kessler has an 87% chance, Devan Cambridge at 63% chance and Allen Flanigan a 40% chance. Add the odds - 99% + 87% + 63% + 40% = 289% - meaning we would expect 2.89 current Auburn players to make the NBA.

That's the 9th most future NBA talent of either team, with Duke (4.74) edging out Kentucky (4.54), Gonzaga (4.36) and an underachieving Memphis (3.94) for the most talent on the court.

Here is the whole list of teams with at least one player with at least a 20% chance of making the League. You can look up which players on each team have a chance at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
 

Most NBA	Team	Future NBA Players
1	Duke	4.74
2	Kentucky	4.54
3	Gonzaga	4.36
4	Memphis	3.94
5	Baylor	3.47
6	Alabama	3.31
7	North Carolina	3.15
8	LSU	3.00
9	Auburn	2.89
10	Kansas	2.88
11	Arizona	2.86
12	Texas	2.73
13	UCLA	2.66
14	Tennessee	2.57
15	Florida St.	2.43
16	Purdue	2.27
17	Michigan	2.25
18	Villanova	2.17
19	Michigan St.	2.03
20	Oklahoma St.	1.94
21	Connecticut	1.93
22	Illinois	1.74
23	USC	1.68
24	Ohio St.	1.62
25	N.C. State	1.61
26	Mississippi St.	1.60
27	Iowa	1.57
28	Notre Dame	1.54
29	Iowa St.	1.51
30	Seton Hall	1.40
31	Texas Tech	1.39
32	Indiana	1.36
33	TCU	1.36
34	Arkansas	1.34
35	Dayton	1.21
36	Florida	1.18
37	Virginia Tech	1.05
38	Nebraska	1.03
39	Rutgers	1.02
40	Georgia Tech	1.01
41	Maryland	1.00
42	Oregon	0.99
43	Colorado	0.98
44	Xavier	0.96
45	Louisville	0.95
46	Wisconsin	0.93
47	Stanford	0.88
48	Fresno St.	0.86
49	Miami FL	0.85
50	Milwaukee	0.85
51	St. John's	0.85
52	St. Bonaventure	0.81
53	San Francisco	0.80
54	Marshall	0.76
55	San Diego St.	0.73
56	Wake Forest	0.72
57	Georgetown	0.65
58	Texas A&M	0.65
59	Houston	0.64
60	Saint Joseph's	0.64
61	Santa Clara	0.63
62	Mississippi	0.61
63	VCU	0.61
64	Western Kentucky	0.61
65	Colorado St.	0.60
66	Charlotte	0.59
67	West Virginia	0.59
68	Wichita St.	0.58
69	Syracuse	0.54
70	BYU	0.49
71	Detroit Mercy	0.47
72	Boise St.	0.46
73	Clemson	0.44
74	UC Santa Barbara	0.42
75	Vanderbilt	0.41
76	Oral Roberts	0.39
77	South Florida	0.39
78	Arizona St.	0.38
79	Buffalo	0.38
80	Marquette	0.36
81	Oregon St.	0.36
82	Washington St.	0.35
83	Liberty	0.34
84	Louisiana Tech	0.34
85	Northern Iowa	0.33
86	Toledo	0.32
87	Butler	0.31
88	Georgia	0.29
89	Cal Baptist	0.28
90	Lipscomb	0.28
91	Montana St.	0.28
92	Tennessee St.	0.28
93	Utah St.	0.28
94	Louisiana	0.27
95	SMU	0.27
96	South Carolina	0.27
97	Duquesne	0.26
98	Saint Peter's	0.26
99	Utah	0.26
100	Creighton	0.25
101	Hawaii	0.25
102	Richmond	0.25
103	Virginia	0.24
104	Saint Louis	0.22
105	San Jose St.	0.22
106	Nevada	0.21
107	Florida Gulf Coast	0.20
108	Providence	0.20
109	UCF	0.20
110	UTEP	0.20

Top 25 Value Add Basketball Players & Top 15 in Each Conference

The rankings for 4,000+ college Most Valuable Players in college basketball are updated at www.valueaddbasketball.com based on stats as of January 17, 2022. Value Add Basketball ranks players in a method similar to how www.kenpom.com ranks teams. The offensive rating (AdjO) minus the defensive rating (AdjD, negative is good because the player is taking points away from the other team) to calculated the overall "Value" of each player above a replacement player.

This blog links to three options to review the rankings:

1. The 25 most valuable players in the country are listed on the table below.

2. You can also go to www.valueaddbasketball.com to sort all 4000+ players by team, conference, class, etc.

3. The picture above is from this CBS 247 story on the updated rankings.

4. Finally, the links below the table take you to your choice of the 32 college basketball conferences for the notes specific to that conference and their top 15 players in the ratings.

Rnk	Top 25 All-Americans	Team	Value	Ht	Cl	AdjO	AdjD	Gm/St	Conf
1	Keegan Murray #15	Iowa	11.08	6'8"	So	8.97	-2.12	16, 16	B10
2	Justin Bean #34	Utah St.	10.58	6'7"	Sr	8.38	-2.20	16, 16	MWC
3	Oscar Tshiebwe #34	Kentucky	10.51	6'9"	Jr	6.86	-3.65	17, 17	SEC
4	Trayce Jackson-Davis #23	Indiana	10.12	6'9"	So	7.21	-2.91	16, 16	B10
5	Alex Barcello #13	BYU	10.12	6'2"	Sr	8.87	-1.25	17, 17	WCC
6	Collin Gillespie #2	Villanova	9.94	6'3"	Sr	8.30	-1.64	17, 17	BE
7	Kendric Davis #3	SMU	9.71	6'0	Sr	9.12	-0.59	17, 17	Amer
8	Armando Bacot #5	North Carolina	9.43	6'10"	Jr	6.85	-2.58	16, 16	ACC
9	Terrell Brown #23	Washington	9.30	6'3"	Sr	7.45	-1.84	15, 15	P12
10	Ochai Agbaji #30	Kansas	9.27	6'5"	Sr	8.33	-0.93	16, 16	B12
11	Tylor Perry #5	North Texas	9.22	5'11"	Jr	7.92	-1.30	13, 0	CUSA
12	Malachi Smith #13	Chattanooga	9.21	6'4"	So	8.62	-0.60	16, 16	SC
13	Posh Alexander #0	St. John's	9.21	6'0	So	5.36	-3.85	14, 13	BE
14	Orlando Robinson #10	Fresno St.	9.12	7'0	Jr	6.79	-2.34	15, 15	MWC
15	EJ Liddell #32	Ohio St.	8.93	6'7"	Jr	6.86	-2.07	15, 15	B10
16	Justin Moore #5	Villanova	8.56	6'4"	Jr	6.14	-2.42	17, 17	BE
17	Santiago Vescovi #25	Tennessee	8.52	6'3"	Jr	6.00	-2.51	16, 16	SEC
18	Jamaree Bouyea #1	San Francisco	8.43	6'2"	Sr	6.46	-1.97	17, 17	WCC
19	Christian Braun #2	Kansas	8.32	6'6"	Jr	6.20	-2.12	16, 16	B12
20	Iverson Molinar #1	Mississippi St.	8.29	6'3"	Jr	8.00	-0.30	16, 16	SEC
21	Tevin Brown #10	Murray St.	8.25	6'5"	Jr	6.33	-1.91	13, 13	OVC
22	Trent Frazier #1	Illinois	8.23	6'2"	Sr	4.61	-3.62	14, 13	B10
23	Alondes Williams #31	Wake Forest	8.21	6'5"	Sr	6.89	-1.32	18, 18	ACC
24	Tari Eason #13	LSU	8.08	6'8"	So	5.16	-2.92	16, 0	SEC
25	Hunter Dickinson #1	Michigan	7.95	7'1"	So	6.17	-1.78	13, 13	B10

Below are the links to each conference review and top 15 players, with the Player of the Year listed.

Abbr, Conference, Player of Year so far, Team

AE, America East Conference, Ryan Davis #35, Vermont

Amer, American Athletic Conference, Kendric Davis #3, SMU

ASun, ASUN Conference, Darius McGhee #2, Liberty

A10, Atlantic 10 Conference, Michael Jones #13, Davidson

ACC, Atlantic Coast Conference, Armando Bacot #5, North Carolina

B12, Big 12 Conference, Ochai Agbaji #30, Kansas

BE, Big East Conference, Collin Gillespie #2, Villanova

BSky, Big Sky Conference, Dillon Jones #2, Weber St.

BSth, Big South Conference, Ricky Clemons #1, Campbell

B10, Big Ten Conference, Keegan Murray #15, Iowa

BW, Big West Conference, Collin Welp #40, UC Irvine

CAA, Colonial Athletic Association, Cam Holden #55, Towson

CUSA, Conference USA, Tylor Perry #5, North Texas

Horz, Horizon League, Jamal Cain #1, Oakland

Ivy, Ivy League, Kino Lilly #10, Brown

MAAC, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, George Papas #5, Monmouth

MAC, Mid American Conference, JT Shumate #32, Toledo

MEAC, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Kris Bankston #30, Norfolk St.

MVC, Missouri Valley Conference, Garrett Sturtz #3, Drake

MWC, Mountain West Conference, Justin Bean #34, Utah St.

NEC, Northeast Conference, Alex Morales #2, Wagner

OVC, Ohio Valley Conference, Tevin Brown #10, Murray St.

P12, Pac 12 Conference, Terrell Brown #23, Washington

Pat, Patriot League, Cam Spencer #12, Loyola MD

SEC, Southeastern Conference, Oscar Tshiebwe #34, Kentucky

SC, Southern Conference, Malachi Smith #13, Chattanooga

Slnd, Southland Conference, Isaac Mushila #10, Texas A&M CC

SWAC, Southwestern Athletic Conference, Jayveous McKinnis #11, Jackson St.

Sum, Summit League, Baylor Scheierman #3, South Dakota St.

SB, Sun Belt Conference, Javon Franklin #13, South Alabama

WCC, West Coast Conference, Alex Barcello #13, BYU

WAC, Western Athletic Conference, Jovan Blacksher #10, Grand Canyon

Note: I added the words "Most Valuable Player" above after initially posting this because our rankings measure how valuable a player is to a team while other votes may measure the "Player of the Year." In most cases I'd say the two are similar, but when writing the Big 12 summary below it occurred to me Baylor was a perfect example of when MVP and POY can be different. James Akinjo and Kendall Brown should be considered for Player of the Year in the rugged Big 12, but I don't believe either of the are in the running for Most Valuable Player because Baylor is so deep that if either of them could not play, Baylor still has seven players on the court that can dominate. I don't believe Kansas could contend nationally if Ochai Agbaji or Christian Braun were out - if those two were out and the two Baylor players above were out for the same game, I believe Baylor would beat Kansas handily..Baylor's incredible depth actually means each player is slightly less valuable because the replacement player stepping in for them is so good.